I am thinking of re-training, maybe doing something beauty based, beautician, nails, hairdressing something like that. I'm 42 (eeek) am single mum, although dh does have children every other weekend. My dd goes to school and ds does 9 - 3 at day nursery until he starts school next Jan. I trained as a medical secretary and that is pretty much all I have done since I left colleage at 18. At the moment I work from home doing clinic typing, the deal is I collect the work and drop it off and it is a nice little job, I do it on a self employed basis and it works nicely around the children, but....having done it now for six months it can be a bit lonely and I do like mixing with other adults. We are moving house soon and my current job may prove a bit difficult as it will be a 40 mile round trip for me to collect and drop off work rather than a 2 mile trip at the mo. So am starting to think about other options.
Would appreciate anyone's thoughts. Has anyone retrained at a similar age in this field and how did it work out? Thanks.